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Changing a database schema on a production application can be a complicated and risky process. Due to the nature of some of these schema changes and the underlying database engine, the physical change may take many minutes and can block …
Every now and then we like to flag posts from other GDS blogs (and maybe further afield) that we think you might be interested in: The GOV.UK team recently began publishing incident reports. Here's one on a spate of 504 …
As James and Ade announced in December, I'm doing some work to connect practitioners in government around the use of open standards as we develop APIs, and our overall approach to data and digital services. That will complement other emerging …
Over the course of the past few years many teams across government have begun publishing their code under open source licenses. That's a change that's been pushed by the Digital by Default Service Standard but it's just as much a …
Point 8 of the Digital by Default Service Standard that we publish on GOV.UK says that source code for government services should be open and reusable, and our 10th design principle is "Make things open: it makes things better". We …
Becoming a “consulting” architect In the spring of 2015, after years working in technology, most recently in the fast-paced mobile sector, I joined the Government Digital Service as a technical architect and I blogged about it at the time.
Meet Dan Appelquist. Dan’s just joined GDS to head up our work to build a community of practice around the use of (and contribution to) open standards in software projects across government. Here’s why that matters. What standards give us …
At GOV.UK Verify we recently encountered a technical performance issue: a memory leak problem with our application that is responsible for any end-user facing functionality. We’ve been running extensive performance testing as we prepare for going live next April and …
On GOV.UK Verify, we’ve adopted a micro-services approach to our architecture
I’ve been working on a prototype of what a Platform as a Service (PaaS) for government might look like, as we wrote about in a previous post.
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